Welcome, this is an awesome podcast to the Jeff, there's a lot of whiskey Jeff Macalino,

Jeff Macalino Macalino, Macalino podcast, hey everybody, welcome to another great episode.

Thank you for listening and thank you for spreading the word and thank you for dropping a rating

on Apple or Spotify. Don't check those much, but when I do I see the numbers bigger than it was

last time, which I guess hypothetically shouldn't go any other way, but we're going to act like it's

abnormal and cool. Thanks for subscribing over at the YouTube channel as well

and all the social medias. Got a fun one for you today or maybe an educational one, but also

a fun one because we get into some very interesting stuff. Richard Anderson, he's a scientist man,

he's a microbiologist, molecular biologist. He also studies off so emphasized biochemistry.

Yeah, so a lot of science in this one. This was also an episode I recorded completely sober,

I believe, I think. He wrote in last year, April 2022, he wrote a book, The Evolution of Life,

Big Bang to Space Colonies. So he kind of ranges from the very, very, very beginning, 3.8 billion

years ago and all the way into what humans can do to sustain the species and move on

from planet earth or, you know, add on to planet earth. I don't know, listen to him, he sounds

smarter than me, but I ask him some questions about all of it. We talk about a lot of different

things as you can imagine, starting with the Big Bang evolution. We talk a little bit and this

certainly doesn't have a pointed view one way or the other, but we talk a little bit about

the potential of God or a creator being involved in all of that. We talk about, of course, aliens.

And then we talk about my planetary living philosophy, whatever, oddly enough, now I am so

ticked off right now. I've been looking for the last 30 minutes for my notebook that always

literally has been sitting next to me since day one of the podcast and it is not on my desk and

I have no idea what happened to it. I've been filming a lot of different things where I've been

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